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Javan Rhino

Endangered Statistics

The Javan rhino is the most endangered large mammal on the planet. It is threatened by deforestation and uncontrolled poaching for its horn. It is estimated that fewer than 60 individuals remain alive today.

To make matters worse, this number is a total of two separate populations of Javan rhino, which are separated by the Indian Ocean (Vietnamese Peninsula and Island of Java). No captive breeding program for the Javan rhino exists - mainly because there are no Javan rhinos in captivity. Despite the threat of poaching, the human use of the Javan rhino habitat is of greater concern. Javan rhinos have actually been observed living in upland rainforests at higher elevations than ever before, a possible result of human encroachment. Consequences of displacing their habitat could result in Javan rhino deaths.

Food Chain Interactions

In the forests the Javan rhino browses mainly on saplings, bushes, and fruits. It will occasionally graze as well. They feed during the morning and evening hours.

Their predators are lions, tigers and hyenas, but the Javan Rhinos are obviously omnivores.

Lifestyle

Habitat

The Javan Rhino will leave their solitary

lives to mate, but then quickly seperate

ways with its mate. It is cold blooded, and

doesn't migrate or hibernate.

The Javan Rhino's range once extended throughout Southeast Asia, from Bangladesh to Myanmar, and from southwest China to Indonesia. Unfortunately, it is now found only in the Ujung Kulon National Park on the island of Java in Indonesia and the Cat Tien Nature Reserve in Vietnam. The tall grasses and reed beds of the lowland rainforests in these parks are preferred by the Javan rhino.

Reproduction

Lifestyle

No defined breeding season has been determined for reproduction. Competition for females is characterized by males battling one another with their tusk-like incisors. The winner breeds with the desired female. After the baby rhino is born, it will leave their mother in two years and begin a solitary lifestyle.

The Javan Rhino defends itself

with their horn. They live very solitary

lives and only interact when breeding.

They take care of their young for two years.

Features

Genus and Species

Javan rhinos have a grey or grey-brown skin,

almost black when wet, with pink coloring in the folds.

The neck folds are less massive than in the greater

one-horned rhino, but two folds continue over the

back of the neck, forming a “saddle” on the neck-shoulder. The skin is also covered with a mosaic pattern. Javan rhinos have a single horn, grey or brownish in color, never very long or massive, and usually less than 20 cm long. Males have larger horns than the females.

Genus- Rhinoceros

Species- Rhinoceros Sondaicus